Pornography is any act that has no artistic merit and causes sexual thoughts…Sounds like almost every commercial on TV to me.
BILL HICKS
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Bill Hicks177 quotes“Pornography is any act that has no artistic merit and causes sexual thoughts…Sounds like almost every commercial on TV to me.”
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James DeanJames Dean Until the past ten years, many defined the period primarily by its well-known literary, musical, and artistic elements while overlooking the fact there was any political component to it at all.
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